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--- doc:appunti:software:kodi_external_player [2023/05/06 09:57] – [Use the external player as default] niccolo
+++ doc:appunti:software:kodi_external_player [2023/06/05 11:20] (current) – niccolo
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 ====== Kodi external player ======
-**userdata/playercorefactory.xml**
+I tried hardly to associate **a custom player for some specific contents** on my Kodi installation. While defining an external player and some custom rules to associate it to some contents is definitely possible, I was not able to execute a program that can take control of the graphic screen. See this paragraph about **[[kodi_addon#cannot_execute_a_graphical_external_program|executing a graphical external program]]**.
+Neverthless, here are the notes about defining the external player.
+===== Ho to define the external player =====
+You have to create/customize the file **userdata/playercorefactory.xml**, something like this:
 <code xml>
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 **WARNING**: The **filename** attribute is a regexp applied to the entire item path, so if you intend to match only the file name part (and not the path) you must start the expression with ''%%.*%%'', which means ""any character repeated zero or more times"".
+===== Identify a ListItem as video =====
+When writing a custom video plugin add-on, I tried to apply a **video external player** to files that are actually playlists of images, i.e. text files with an ''m3u'' extension. From the context menu it was clear that they were now recognized as video files because the //Play using...// item was not present and the default player was not the video player, despite the filename and filetypes attributes were properly specified into the ''playercorefactory.xml'' file. FIXME Use the MimeType property?